Ashes 2015 witnesses millionth ball in Test cricket in England - Cricket Country › Series › The Ashes, 2015 › Articles Ashes 2015 witnesses millionth ball in Test cricket in England Stokes’ second ball was also the millionth ball in the history of Test cricket in England. It took them 498 Tests to reach the landmark. By CricketCountry Staff | Updated : August 10, 2015 3:11 PM IST Chris Rogers and David Warner were forging a strong opening partnership against England in Ashes 2015 after Australia conceded a 331-run lead in the fourth Test at Trent Bridge. Rogers and Warner batted at a brisk pace, and on came Ben Stokes to send down the 16th over. The first ball was straight, Warner tried to flick it, and missed; it hit his pad. Warner played the next ball straight past the bowler for four, beating a charging mid-on. The score moved on to 75 without loss. Thanks to Rogers and Warner, Australia trailed by 256 at this stage with all ten wickets intact.

ALSO READ: Live Cricket Score England vs Australia, The Ashes 2015, 4th Test, Day 2 Stokes’ second ball was also the millionth ball in the history of Test cricket in England. It took them 498 Tests to reach the landmark. Australia, as expected, come second on the list, followed by India and West Indies. South Africa’s early start has been ruined by the 22-year hiatus. Live Cricket Scores and updates of England vs Australia 4th Ashes 2015 Test at Trent Bridge, Day 2 here Tests in different countries: A summary ONE-MILLIONTH Test ball in England is bowled by Ben Stokes - and David Warner hits it for it four - Mirror Online Sport ONE-MILLIONTH Test ball in England is bowled by Ben Stokes - and David Warner hits it for it four The landmark ball came in the 16th over of Australia's second innings, as the tourists were fighting to save the Ashes Share One in a million: Ben Stokes delivers the landmark ball (Photo: Reuters) Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing!

Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Amid the massacre that is currently taking place in Nottingham, one of the most notable Test cricket balls of all-time was bowled. The one millionth delivery in the history of Test cricket in England was delivered in the 16th over at Trent Bridge this afternoon, as England looked to further strengthen their grip on this summer's Ashes series. The ball was finally delivered by Ben Stokes to David Warner, who hit it for four. The Test had already provided some of the most remarkable scenes in the recent history of the sport, as England sensationally fired themselves to a lead of over 200 on the opening day. Stuart Broad took eight wickets in a sensational first innings, with Australia all-out for 60 after just 18.3 overs. With the first million now in the bank, here is a lowdown of some of the game's most notable deliveries in history...

In pictures - England vs Australia fourth Test, day two: 06/09/1880: First ever ball by Australian Henry Boyle to Edward Grace (older brother of WG who opened alongside him) Ball no: 1 25/06/1932: First ball bowled by an Indian in England by Mohamad Nissar who took 5-93 and thus became the first Indian on the Lord's honours board. Ball no: 138,122 14/08/1948: Eric Hollies bowls Don Bradman for nought in his last ever Test innings to keep his average under 100 (he needed four). Ball no: 225,267 Gone for a duck: Don Bradman (right) alongside Jack Fingleton (Photo: Getty Images) 30/07/1956: Last ball of the Old Trafford Test bowled by Jim Laker to Leonard Maddocks, he was lbw and that was the 10th wicket for Laker in the innings and his 19th of the match.

Ball no: 304,957 30/08/1965: Last ball of Oval Test bowled by Peter Pollock to Colin Cowdrey and the last ball bowled by a South African in England before isolation. Ball no: 404,918 11/08/1977: Geoff Boycott brings up his 100th first class hundred on his home ground of Headingley by hitting Greg Chappell for four through mid on. Ball no: 534,996 Celebrations: Boycott celebrates his 100th century with a glass of champagne 21/07/1981: Bob Willis bowls Ray Bright to finish the Headingley Test and complete figures of 8-43 to seal the most remarkable comeback.

Ball no: 572,728 04/06/1993: Shane Warne bowls Mike Gatting at Old Trafford with the 'ball of the century' Ball no: 705,224 Iconic: Warne celebrates 'that' ball in 1993 (Photo: Mirrorpix) 21/07/2005: Steve Harmison bowls a bouncer at Ricky Ponting that ends up scarring him for life. The trickle of blood down the face is the signal for the start of the greatest series of all time. Ball no: 858,592 20/06/2014: Stuart Broad has Shaminda Eranga caught behind to become the only England bowler to take two Test hat-tricks, not that he knew. It came across two overs and Liam Plunkett took another inbetween.

Ball no: 977,516 Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day three – as it happened | Sport | The Guardian Ashes 2015 Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day three – as it happened England cruised to an eight-wicket victory in the third Test after Australia’s tail had provided some initial resistance in the morning Updated Joe Root and Ian Bell celebrate after adding the winning runs for England. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images Friday 31 July 2015 11.22 EDT First published on Friday 31 July 2015 04.49 EDT 11:22 Summing up So that’s us done for this Test, another by turns memorable and slightly bizarre match in this dizzying rollercoaster of a series. We head to Trent Bridge next, with England desperate to break their sequence of winning then losing, but they’ll have to do so without their most prolific bowler, Anderson. Anyway, thanks for all your emails, tweets and insights. It’s been fun. Bye.

Updated 11:17 And the man of the match award goes to … STEVEN FINN. Anderson, Warner and Bell are all mentioned in dispatches but the returning Middlesex quick gets the award, and a richly deserved one too. “I felt in good rhythm when I’ve bowled for my county this season, and you’ve just got to trust the work you’ve done,” he says. He describes yesterday’s spell as probably the best he’s ever bowled in Test cricket. Well played sir. Updated 11:17 Alastair Cook steps up to the mic next, kicking off with major praise for the “absolutely unique” Edgbaston crowd, which he says has been as loud as he can ever remember. He praises his team’s professional procession to victory. Steven Finn earns praise: “To come back and bowl as he has done here is fantastic, and the hard work has been his … standing there at slip for that first spell, it was frighteningly good.” As for Bell, “class is permanent”, says the captain, defending the trust placed in England’s No3 after a difficult period. Time to break the win-loss-win-loss… sequence, says Athers.

11:13 Michael Clarke tells Michael Atherton “it’s very hard to explain” his side’s wildly variable performances. He still maintains that he would have batted first with the benefit of hindsight, but rues that his side “didn’t execute” with either bat and ball. He self-deprecatingly admits that “it’s time the captain got off the plane and turned up” with the bat, and praises England’s bowlers for not letting him settle early in his innings. He praises his tail-enders for fighting “their backside off” this morning, and admits that Australia will take some confidence from Anderson’s regrettable injury, invoking the Glenn McGrath injury here 10 years ago. Anyway, stick around for a bit. We’ll have the presentation soon, after which those man-of-the-match discussions we’ve been having will be conclusively settled. Or perhaps not. Here’s something for the Bell cheerleaders: Post-match reaction: Ian Bell, talking to Ian Ward, praises England’s bowlers for “some of the best bowling I’ve seen since being part of the England set-up”, which is high praise indeed given his career’s longevity.

Speaking for so many of us dept: Updated 10:52 England win the third Test by eight wickets! 31.1 overs: England 124-2 (Bell 65, Root 38) Bell tucks Marsh’s first ball away for four on the legside to win it. England go 2-1 up, and they deserve some credit for the way they’ve handled a potentially nervy run chase. Well played, particularly this pair. England’s Joe Root and Bell celebrate. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images Updated 10:52 31st over: England 120-2 (Bell 65, Root 34) [Target 121]. Scores level. Bell nudges Lyon round the corner for one, then Root takes England to within two of victory with a well-judged sweep off the front foot that pierces the legside boundary and goes for four. He then takes a hurried single to mid-on to level the scores.

10:49 30th over: England 114-2 (Bell 64, Root 29) [Target 121] Is there a more English sight than a load of blokes in fancy dress doing a conga in a cricket ground? We’ve got one on the go at the moment. Another change of bowling, with Mitchell Marsh into the attack for the first time in this innings. He’s reasonably on the money, with a nice full line outside off stump, until he drops one a fraction short and Roots square cuts, with consummate style, for four. Seven needed. “Appreciate where all the Finn love is coming from for MOTM,” appreciates Oliver, “but I think a joint award for Bell and Root is required. Both have kept their heads whilst all around seemed to be almost losing theirs in the two innings and their base allowed Moeen to push on for his score, as well as giving Finn something to bowl at and (hopefully...) seeing us home today.

Could have been a different story without one of them at three and four.” 10:44 29th over: England 110-2 (Bell 64, Root 25) [Target 121] Tea is indeed going to be delayed. Bell takes a bit of a risk with a legside hoik off Lyon that isn’t too far from Marsh before a more composed clip in the same region brings a single. Root adds another before Bell is confounded by a bit of an extra kick off the turf but his edge is too high and wide for the slip and brings him a couple more runs instead. 10:41 28th over: England 106-2 (Bell 61, Root 24) [Target 121] Fun and games between Johnson and the crowd. Johnson has a big appeal for a legside strangle of Root, which Nevill takes well to his left. They opt to review it, but no bat can be detected, and the batsman survives.

The very next ball is similarly slanted down leg, without Root getting anywhere near it, though it does provoke noisy ironic appealing from the crowd, some of whom may just have had a pint or two by now. An attempted slower fuller ball is horribly wide down the offside next up, but not called wide. He then pulls out of his subsequent delivery, to orchestrate yet more voluble raucousness from the crowd, before finally sending the last ball of the over down from a good couple of yards behind the crease. It’s a six-minute maiden, full of sound and fury but signifying little. The pressures on for Johnson. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images Updated 10:35 27th over: England 106-2 (Bell 61, Root 24) [Target 121] Finn’s winning the MOTM suggestions from the OBO collective, though Gary Naylor offers a slightly mischievous shout out for the groundsman. Mark Turner thinks a nod should be offered to Moeen for his innings yesterday – and it did indeed feel like the one pivotal and influential piece of batting in the match, in the circumstances.

Back to today’s action, Bell slog-sweeps Lyon for four to bring England to within 15 of victory. 10:31 26th over: England 101-2 (Bell 57, Root 23) [Target 121] “Stand up if you’re 2-1 up,” bellow the assembled in the Hollies Stand, revealing a confidence rarely seen in the OBO inbox today. Root adds a single from Johnson, who tries to target Bell with one slanted across him on the legside, but it’s not close enough to trouble him. We’re 10 minutes from tea but the umpires may well opt to play on until we get a result, we’re informed. Updated 10:27 26th over: England 100-2 (Bell 57, Root 23) [Target 121] Lyon’s back after Starc’s horror-show in the previous over from that end, and Bell turns him round the corner for a single. And then Root decides to have a go, sweeping across the line with sufficient power and confidence to bring him SIX over deep midwicket.

He tries the same shot two balls later but doesn’t get hold of it – neither do any of the legside fielders though, and the over-spin slightly wrongfoots Johnson at square leg. It brings one, and enables Bell to bring the hundred up with a deliciously timed and executed push through the covers for four. I think – it’s just a hunch – that England are favourites now. Root smashes one for six. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images Updated 10:23 25th over: England 88-2 (Bell 52, Root 15) [Target 121] Johnson returns to the attack – the last throw of the dice, reckons Nasser Hussain – and tests Root, a little, with a tempter outside off stump that the batsman leaves astutely. Root’s a little less convincing when he drives uppishly for no run with one of those length balls outside off stump to which he’s succumbed against Australia before. It’s another good over, crowned with one that nips back into Root’s upper thigh and has him stumbling a tad. “Who’s going to be Man of the Match?” wonders John Starbuck.

“Highest overall scorer Bell, or choice of best bowlers Anderson or Finn?” Finn, for my money – he was excellent in the first innings as well. And unbeaten with the bat, for what it’s worth –unless something really stupid now happens. 10:17 24th over: England 88-2 (Bell 52, Root 15) [Target 121] Wayward stuff here. Starc offers Bell too much that is leavable, including one that’s so slanted it’s practically at 45 degrees and is called wide. Nevill gathers it with theatrical excellence, mind, though second slip could just as easily have gathered it. The following ball is almost as bad, and also adds one to the extras tally. Shane Warne in the commentary box reckons its all part of a set-up for a massive inswinging yorker, but none is forthcoming. Instead, Bell cuts a back of a length ball backward of square for four to bring up another lovely half-century. The No3 conundrum there, solved. Bell celebrates his half century.

Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images Updated 10:11 23rd over: England 82-2 (Bell 48, Root 15) [Target 121] Hazlewood continues, overpitches a fraction, and is driven down the ground for four by Root – the first boundary in a while. But the rest of the over is tidy. This innings generally has the feel of the first innings on a first morning. It’s been a back-to-front kind of Test like that. 10:07 22nd over: England 78-2 (Bell 48, Root 11) [Target 121] A change of bowling, and a change of ends for Starc, who’s on at the City End now. He’s not massively accurate initially but nor is he expensive: Bell clips him through midwicket for two but that’s the only addition to the score.

Gary Naylor takes up the cudgels on the Australia v New Zealand teaser raised a few overs back: 10:02 21st over: England 76-2 (Bell 46, Root 11) [Target 121] Bell takes another risk with a mistime hook from Hazlewood that goes up but comes down safely and brings him a single. Hazlewood’s bowling well here – in fact Australia’s bowling in this innings has been at least twice as good as it was first time out – and he concedes no other run from this over. A mere 45 needed. Bell hooks one. Photograph: Philip Brown/Reuters Updated 09:59 20th over: England 75-2 (Bell 45, Root 11) [Target 121] This run-chase is now meandering more than many of us thought it would at lunchtime. Lyon maintains a nice probing variety but can’t get a wicket. Bell gets a run with a flick square on the legside.

More on the Headingley 97 fancy-dress professor has been unearthed by Mike Harrold while Simon Paknadel reminds us that the Yorkshire Post described it thus: ‘Two men dressed in a pantomime-cow costume cavorted round the boundary, and were crash-tackled by officials after play: the man playing the rear end, Branco Risek, needed treatment in hospital. Brian Cheeseman, a university lecturer dressed as a carrot, was frogmarched from the ground for ‘drunken and disorderly behaviour’. He vehemently denied the allegations. Mr Cheeseman has been attending Headingley Tests in fancy dress since 1982.” Updated 09:56 19th over: England 74-2 (Bell 44, Root 11) [Target 121] Nevill musters half an appeal after an attempted strangle down the legside but Bell’s bat has got nowhere near it. The No3 pushes for a couple then drives for a single. “Apropos the fancy dress,” wonders Chris Bourne, “has anybody yet turned up to a Test dressed as Jeremy Corbyn?

Because then we’ll know that it’s really truly a thing now.” There’ll be a run on beige jackets and false half-beards, and increased sales of Labour Briefing, before Trent Bridge now. 09:52 18th over: England 71-2 (Bell 41, Root 11) [Target 121] Bell and Root trade singles. Three of which come from the over – the England batsmen just seem to be taking the pressure and intensity out of the situation at the moment, which shows a wisdom not always on view in this match. This Lyth debate needs a Yorkshire contribution doesn’t it? Fear not, here’s David Hopkins: “While as a Yorkshire fan it’s great that we may get our opening batsman back for the title run-in, isn’t Lyth entitled to point to the ludicrous decision not to allow him to play himself in in the Caribbean, leaving him two tests to acclimatise before facing the full wrath of the Aussie attack?” He’s more than entitled, I’d say.

Updated 09:48 17th over: England 68-2 (Bell 39, Root 10) [Target 121] Hazlewood replaces Johnson at the Pavilion end, and Bell squirts him away for a single. No other runs follow from a decent accurate over, though Australia obviously need rather more than just those now. Updated 09:44 16th over: England 67-2 (Bell 38, Root 10) [Target 121] Lyon’s back at the City End, and Bell makes room to cut a shorter ball through the covers for one. Then this time it’s Root’s turn to take a big risk against Lyon with an ill-advised legside heave that lands safely enough, but not where he intended. They run two and take drinks. Re pantomime horses, recalls Adam Hirst: “At Headingley back in the Good Old 90s, a pantomime horse once got thrown out. The horse made the mistake of clip-clopping along the front of a well-tanked post-tea Western Terrace.

Absolutely everything was launched at it, beer cups, chip wrappers, anything to hand with the whole stand in uproar. The fella at the front took the head off and started shouting and flashing Vs at the stand, which only provoked more laughter and launching. The police took the reins and led them out, still in their horse outfit. Some people think that it’s just not cricket to come in fancy dress.” I think I might have been at that match - 97 Ashes? Wasn’t that also the Test at which one of the fancy-dress ejectees was actually a university professor, or somesuch? Updated 09:38 15th over: England 64-2 (Bell 37, Root 8) [Target 121] Johnson continues, over the wicket, and Bell turns him round the corner for a single. It’s the only scoring shot of a decent accurate over – Johnson’s looked the pick of Australia’s quicks again in this innings so far, albeit without producing anything as menacing as he did first thing yesterday. “Surely now we begin the discussion of who gets Lyth’s spot?” begins Stephen Pay in a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.

“Needed to see this innings out to keep his place, one feels. I notice the Standard was cheekily suggesting Essex’ own Tom Westley last night.” Well, he’s been in fine form this summer, but in Division Two. The step up from the top of Division One has been tricky enough for Lyth. Updated 09:34 14th over: England 63-2 (Bell 36, Root 8) [Target 121] Root gets right on top of a back-of-a-length wide Hazlewood delivery outside off stump and square-cuts it with poise and timing for four. Only 58 needed, as the Barmy Army sing, “we’re halfway there…” Here’s a thought: it’s been rollicking good see-sawing fun, this series, but it appears to have lacked the actual quality of that seen in the New Zealand series earlier this summer, which makes one wonder how a New Zealand-Australia series in this country, in these conditions, might pan out. I’d pay good money to see that.

09:30 13th over: England 59-2 (Bell 36, Root 4) [Target 121] “It wouldn’t be the same without a pantomime horse,” chuckles Bumble at some fancy-dress fun in the Hollies Stand, in a way that can only summon to mind the dread phrase “quintessentially English”. Bell is watchful to some probing stuff from Johnson slanted across the corridor outside off stump, before picking up two with a flick through the covers. A well judged scampered two follows when Bell nudges a shorter one off his hips to keep the scoreboard ticking over. “I must disagree with your assessment of Lyth, Tom,” dissents Richard Woods in what can only be described as damning with faint, well, damning. “He did his job as lunch watchman, got into double figures and has now left the field for the batsmen.” 09:20 Wicket!

Lyth lbw b Hazlewood 12, England 51-2 12th over: England 55-2 (Bell 32, Root 4) [Target 121] Josh Hazlewood rejoins the attack from the City End and gets Lyth straight away, with a ball that jags back into the left-hander’s pads. He reviews it, but it’s clattering off stump and it pitched in line, so the Yorkshire opener is out for another low score. It’s not looking good for him now. His county team-mate Joe Root, on the other hand, is full of it and he cracks his first ball past point for four. Hazlewood comes back at him well though with seam and swing to beat Root outside off stump. Josh Hazlewood celebrates taking Lyth LBW. Photograph: James Marsh/BPI/Rex Shutterstock Adam Lyth walks back to the pavilion after losing his wicket for 12.

Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images “Sadly, Joe Neate’s kind offer is one I will have to refuse,” rues Simon McMahon, “being, as I am, 500 miles from Brighton, and not being one of the Proclaimers. So, a weekend of doing ‘family things’ beckons. Can’t wait.” It’s not every week you get three Proclaimers-related emails on the OBO so I’m publishing this one too. Updated 09:18 11th over: England 51-1 (Lyth 12, Bell 32) [Target 121] Johnson tests Bell with a well targeted inswinger that raps him just above the knee but it’s going down legside. Bell then plays another of this game’s Trademark Rash Shots with a footwork-free slash and miss at a wide one outside off stump. A good maiden over, largely for its pace rather than bounce.

“I take Ross in Edinburgh’s point (7th Over),” writes Stephen Pay, “but surely although this wicket has had something in it for the bowlers, the majority of wickets to fall in this game have been down to bad shot selection (to put it politely). There might be a call for an inspection, but that’s no guarantee you’d get a points deduction. Hardly the grounds man’s fault if 80% of the batsmen are playing like a side from the sub-continent in a hurry to go home.” A bit harsh on sides from the sub-continent aching to go home, to be honest. 09:07 8th over: England 47-1 (Lyth 12, Bell 28) [Target 121] Bell executes a rather smarter glide down to third man off Lyon, playing it late and steering it to the boundary. More transgressions from spectators behind the sightscreen momentarily delay things before Bell picks up three more with a chop square on the offside. A single brings to the strike Lyth, who creams a confidence-boosting four through the covers. And here comes Mitchell J… Who fancies a game then?

Here’s Joe Neate with an unrefusable offer. “For anyone disappointed that this game looks like it might not make it to Sunday, fear not, the OBOcassionals are in action again down in Brighton in a mini-tournament for the Extra Cover charity. This is a final call to action for anyone who wants to come down to watch, play, or even umpire or do the score. Should be a terrific day out, and people of any ability are more than welcome. We’re playing this Sunday the 2nd August from 11am. To get in contact, there are a few options. Facebook: OBOccasionals Twitter: @JoeNeate1 My email: joe.neate@gmail.com Please get in contact, the more the merrier, and we’re mostly normal and friendly. We have two 20-20 games in the day, and if you turn up, you’ll get a game, guaranteed. 08:33 Afternoon everyone. Tom here, taking up the chase. Well, like the people on the afternoon shift in Edgbaston’s bars, I wasn’t sure if I’d be called into action at all today.

But here we are, with England facing a nervy little chase. The angst-infused historical precedents have been flying around social media this morning (have any cricket lovers in England done the remotest stroke of work today?) - that 121 is the precise total Australia were skittled for at Edgbaston in 1981; that England’s most recent fourth-innings score was 103 at Lord’s, on a flat pitch at that; that there are echoes here of the nerve-shredding chase at Trent Bridge 10 years ago; that the atmosphere in the ground at times this morning – sporadic Australian cheering interspersed with audible expressions of English anxiety – sounded exactly like it did, science boffins have demonstrated, on That Fourth Morning in Birmingham in 2005. A new chapter is waiting to be written here then … 07:29 75th over: Australia 257-9 (Starc 54, Lyon 9) [lead by 112] Starc is happy to let Lyon face Stokes. A single and Lyon is swinging and missing at a fifth stump delivery.

Lyon then gets forward with a lot more conviction and strikes four through extra-cover. Here’s Dave Brooker from Canada: “Er, I don’t want to get too pessimistic, but can someone tell Jimmy Anderson not to go home just yet, side strain or not. We might be needing him. To bat.” cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) Replay shows Lyon would have been out second ball on review. England have none left: #Ashes pic.twitter.com/LUhCkGjEMF 07:21 73rd over: Australia 245-9 (Starc 51, Lyon 0) [lead of 100] Stokes into the attack, replacing Joe Root. He starts over the wicket and signs of a touch of swing, as he starts one wide of leg stump which goes on to wrap the top of Hazlewood’s pad on leg stump. The next ball, Root takes a stunning catch at third slip. Big appeal against Nathan Lyon, first up, but it’s not out - seems to have hit just outside the line. At least Aleem Dar thought so, anyway. Hawkeye says “umpire’s call”.

Close again – Dar thinks long and hard and still not out. Fair enough. Lyon finally gets bat on one, right back to the bowler. And again. Wicket maiden. Turns out the second one was out. Ah well... Ben Stokes’ big appeal against Nathan Lyon. Photograph: Philip Brown/Reuters Daniel Cherny (@DanielCherny) 07:15 72nd over: Australia 245-8 (Starc 51, Hazlewood 11) [lead by 100] Starc very watchful of Moeen’s flight and defending nicely, almost inside-out. Leaves his third ball, as Mo gives this one a little bit more air. Not enough for Ponting, who wants Starc to be tempted. He is, the very next ball, and he goes high but straight enough to evade the man running back from mid-off. Another four. An almighty heave the next ball goes higher than it does long but still manages to plink on the right side of the boundary, from an Australian point of view, for six! That’s Starc’s fifty from 83 balls.

Ashes 2015: Rampant England humiliate rival Australia - CNN.com — Notts Police (@nottspolice) August 6, 2015 Leading 2-1 in the five-match series after an eight-wicket win last time out at Edgbaston, England blew its rival apart with a scintillating display of fast bowling. This after Australia had arrived on English shores as firm favorite after thrashing England 5-0 in the 2014 series Down Under. But after winning the second Test at Lord's to level the series at 1-1, Australia has fallen apart in embarrassing fashion. Last week in Birmingham Australia was swept aside but this innings was one of the lowest moments for the country's Test side in recent memory.

The Sydney Morning Herald has a poll #Ashes #Broad : pic.twitter.com/dQDxJHWOPC — Jonathan Hawkins (@jonathanhlondon) August 6, 2015 Not since 1936 had Australia managed a worse score than 60 in an Ashes Test match but on a pitch which left its batsmen bamboozled, at times the Aussies looked more like a village team than a side filled with international stars. The last time Australia suffered such a disastrous innings was in 2011 where it was bowled out for a paltry 47 by South Africa in Cape Town. After winning the toss, Alastair Cook elected to bowl first and his side didn't disappoint, ripping into the Australians straight away. Broad, the pick of the England bowlers, dismissed Chris Rogers and Steven Smith in the first over before David Warner was caught behind off a delivery from Mark Wood. Shaun Marsh was dismissed for nought by Broad before the same bowler took Adam Voges' wicket courtesy of a spectacular one-handed diving catch by Ben Stokes.

Australia are all out for 60 in 18.3 overs after an outrageously good morning for England in the Investec #ashes pic.twitter.com/Mo3aRHkyCC — England Cricket (@englandcricket) August 6, 2015 Michael Clarke, the under-fire Australian captain, was the sixth man to be out, edging the ball to Alastair Cook at slip as Broad continued to run riot. At 29-6, England were in total control and Peter Nevill was soon on his way back to the pavilion after losing his off stump to Steven Finn. Mitchell Starc managed just one before he was sent packing by Broad and he was soon followed by Mitchell Johnson, who top scored with 13. Nathan Lyon was the final man to go, caught by Stokes off Broad to leave Australia all-out for 60. Broad's 8-15 takes him to 307 Test wickets and ranks him fifth in the country's all-time list of leading wicket takers.

04W24W0W04100000W40000110W020000401000W000000000101000011W0011200010040040000W1W30000000000000400000000000001004W: Aus innings in one tweet. — Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) August 6, 2015 Broad's figures are also the best figures in a Test match for England since 1994 when Devon Malcom claimed 9-57 against South Africa. While Australia imploded on the Trent Bridge pitch, England overcame the loss of four wickets to finish the day with a commanding lead. Jonny Bairstow's 74 and Root's heroic hundred allowed the two men to create a partnership worth 173 runs after the loss of early wickets.

Adam Lyth, who has struggled for form throughout the series -- the first of Starc's three victims -- fell for 14 as England lost its opening wicket for 32. Ian Bell made just one before being adjudged LBW to Starc, while Cook suffered a similar fate for 43. By my reckoning England's 214 ranks No.3 for biggest day-one leads in Test history. #ashes pic.twitter.com/Rh21FWA5pr — Jesse Hogan (@Jesse_Hogan) August 6, 2015 From there on it was all about Root, who played beautifully for his eighth Test match hundred . It's the first time a player has scored a century on the first day of an Ashes Test batting in the second innings of a match. At just 24, Root's econd century of the series put England in pole position. Australia did manage to grab another wicket late in the day -- Bairstow holing out to Rogers off the bowling of Josh Hazlewood for 74 -- before Mark Wood, the night-watchman, entered the action to provide protection for Root and close out the day for England with minimal fuss.

The home side will return Friday for the second day with the Ashes very much within its grasp -- for the proud sporting nation of Australia, the humiliation continues.

Question: Who bowled the one millionth ball in test cricket in England at the Ashes match at Trent Bridge in 2015?
Answer: Ben Stokes